The eagle-eyed among you may well have spotted that something is afoot here at Kraken Kreations. This here website keeps shifting about, products have been disappearing, I keep tweaking my social media output… That’s because I’ve booted Kraken Kreations up the arse. After almost seven years of hand sewing as well as embroidering, I’ve decided […]
Thinking it’s expensive It’s not. You can commission me to make one of my £10 bundles and it’ll cost exactly the same as the ones off the shelf. In fact most of the commissions I receive don’t cost a penny more than the ones you can already see. When it comes to handsewing commissioning mistakes […]
Got a pile of fabric scraps? Don’t know what to do with them? Already despairing of the latest lockdown? Well stop crying in the bathroom as the kids get home-schooled by CBBeebies. Here’s what I do with my fabric scraps when I want a pick-me-up especially during wintery days… Decorate a bullet journal One of […]
If you want to gift anatomical embroidery this Christmas, it’s dead easy. You pinpoint the scientist or med lover in your life, choose one of my anatomical embroideries, wait for the postie and get wrapping. If, though, you want to gift anatomical embroidery that you haven’t seen in my shop here’s what you do: Make […]
Ever struggle with gifts for awkward people? I hear you. My nanna would routinely return her Crimbo gifts in January. So here are a pile of handmade gift ideas for friends and family who routinely make you want to headbutt Santa in his grotto… They insist on eco-friendly And rightly so. Who doesn’t want to […]
Do you need to find your embroidery mojo? Has lockdown messed it up so badly that it’s now buried deeper than that piece you ruined with shonky chain stitching? Yeah, I hear you. That’s why I’ve come up with a few ideas to get you stitching again. Here you go: Pick one, any one… Forget […]
If you ever fancied commissioning an anatomical embroidery you’re in luck. Problem is, the word ‘commission’ makes the whole process sound way fancier than it actually is. There’s no mystery to asking me to stab fabric until a kidney appears though. So if you didn’t know where to start, here’s what you need to know. […]
So you want to hear “buy handmade for Christmas in September” as much as you want a Covid test shoved down your throat. I get it. But here’s the thing: hating Christmas doesn’t make it go away. And if you don’t believe me, here are the festive problems you can solve when you think about […]
So I know that loads of you want to buy an anatomical embroidery from me. Thing is, the moment I mention the price, loads of you also back away. Bugger! And I get it. My pieces start at £300 and it IS a bit of an investment. But here’s what you don’t know: as an […]
Loads of you have face mask questions for me. And let’s be fair: until a couple of months ago none of us ever thought we’d need such an item so there are lots of questions to be asked. So to save you staggering about in the dark when it comes to buying a fancy muzzle, […]
